Gachiakuta is another of those recent anime that I like better than the manga. And I mean, I like the manga a lot. But a really high-class adaptation (recent examples include Tengoku Daimakyou, Nige Jouzu no Wakagimi, and Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu) can really elevate the experience. This may be a battle shounen about trash …
Oh boy. Idols. Impressions: An extra long idol segment that goes for two thirds of the episode. My favorite thing in the world ever. The production and variation was a little higher than the vampire show, I guess, and I can see the vision behind “we are enslaved to the idol industry and have …
The issue right now is too much sucking. Impressions: We move on from the most vampire-free generic beach multi episode arc to… an utterly banal vampire-free generic school festival multi episode arc. The bad cliches will continue until morale improves, it seems. Or more accurately, until the episode count reaches its limit. Like the …
Spy X Family Season 3 – 10 I knew we were in for a down week on Spy X Family based on the preview. Not many series are as predictable quality-wise as this one – if you know the basic premise you can generally guess what you’re going to get. But given how low this …
Where was that scorecard again? There are weeks when the “historical” part of Kingdom’s historical battle seinen subgenre really comes to the fore. I won’t pretend to understand more than a tiny fraction of the complexities of ancient Chinese ethno-politics and military history. But the names being dropped this week are a very real part …
On the plus side, the whole Mimori-Hirotoshi thing seems pretty much over. Small blessings, then, as there’s not a lot else in the current arc that’s clicking for me. I do feel for Fushi in his Sisyphean struggle with the injustice of existence (much more than with the Nokkers). But Fumetsu is in the mode …
